Abstract In order to handle presuppositions in the scope of attitude verbs, binding theory allows triggered a subject's beliefs be bound at matrix level; and it non-doxastic attitudes (Geurts, 1999; Maier, 2015). However, we argue that this leads serious overgeneration, for example predicts unacceptable ‘Sue will come party, but Bill is sure she won't only Sue party’ should equivalent acceptabl...

There are two foundational questions to ask about presupposition: What is it? And where does it come from? The philosophical work which has most influenced linguists' understanding of presupposition is that of Robert Stalnaker (Stalnaker 1973, 1974, 2002). One aspect of Stalnaker's work on presupposition is an attempt to decouple these two questions. Stalnaker does this by providing a character...